…Although WordPress is very powerful right out of the box, there…is a rich landscape of plugins that extends its capabilities tremendously.…A WordPress plugin is very similar to a Dreamweaver extension, except…you don't use the extension manager as you do in Dreamweaver.…You use the WordPress administrative interface, especially the Plugin section.…So you'll…see, as a main navigation item over on the left, Plugins.…And I click that, it shows a list of the previously installed plugins.…

WordPress comes with two by default, Akismet,…which you see up top, and Hello Dolly.…Hello Dolly is just kind of a fun thing that…you can implement on your own WordPress site if you like.…I typically will go in and actually…delete the files because I don't really like it at all.…But that's just me.…Akismet, on the other hand, is a very powerful plugin…that I totally recommend that performs in absolutely necessary service.…So a lot of times with blogs, you get comments that include a lot of spam.…

It's a really terrible situation unless you protect against it.…

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2/26/2014

WordPress offers powerful content management for your website while Dreamweaver CC enables easy design and coding–a potent combination. In this course, you'll explore how to integrate WordPress into a Dreamweaver site, allowing you to edit and expand your code with Dreamweaver's native tools. Author Joseph Lowery shows how to take WordPress themes to the next level, using CSS customization and jQuery widgets. He also covers how to make your pages responsive to tablet and phone layouts, and develop category-driven layouts. Finally, you'll investigate how to extend WordPress with plugins, style them with Dreamweaver, and get your finished website online using Dreamweaver's publishing and testing tools.